Why You Should Watch: Heidi, Girl of the Alps
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- A look into why I loved this delightful 70’s anime, it’s excellent presentation, and why exactly it’s worth your time.
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Alps no Shoujo Heidi
Akage no Anne
Only Yesterday
Grave of the Fireflies
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) OP
Cutie Honey (1973) OP
Area 88 OVA
Future Boy Conan
Yuru Camp
•Music
Heidi, Girl of the Alps OST:
Oshiete
Yama no Ko tachi
Yama no Tomodachi
Frankfurt no Hibi
Yuugata no Uta (Instrumental)
Mata Ashita
Hakugin no Alm
Yama no Keshiki
In Italy Heidi is THE anime.
Every Italian has seen Heidi at least ten times.
same in Germany
This was technically the first anime ive seen
Absolutely the same with Afrikaans-speakers in South Africa.
I think that's wonderful. When you allow something to be itself it can reach a wide audience more effectively than how projects made in the west try so hard to selectively please everyone and end up pleasimg no one.
same in portugal
My mom's from El Salvador and she remembers so fondly of Heidi everytime she was able to see on her family's tiny TV but was never able to see it start to finish, but now she can! 🥰
That's awesome!
My mom is from El Salvador too and we're watching the series rn bc of her! I've recently got HBO Max and was on the Studio Ghibli section and she happened to pass by and told us that the art style reminded her of it! It's such a wholesome show and I'm up to episode 24 right now
This series is the first cartoon series I ever watched in the early 80s when it was rebroadcast in Mexico when we lived there for 3 years. I would run home after school so I wouldn't miss any episodes. Everyone loved it and everyone watched it. Young and old. I loved the beauty of the visuals and the animation. Makes me wanna go visit that town hahaha! I cried, laughed and cried some more. So emotional at times that you forget you're watching an animated series. My mom watched it, I watched it and now the grandkids have watched the series. Dang... Such an emotional series.
As a south african I can tell you, we love this thing.
why do I think of clover milk when i think of this
I saw the afrikaans version. Im watching it as we speak. This may be weird but i have a hugeee crush on peter lolll
@@citizenshoyo8464 where can I watch the English or afrikaans version
@@makubegysman6160 Hi! Im not sure if its on youtube but i have the dvd box set sorry that i couldnt help 😁📀
@@makubegysman6160 I think it might be available on RUclips, not absolutely sure, but it’s worth a look :P
*loading my gun as I hear "Heidi's design feels off"*
Calm down-
_the worst thing about betrayal is that it never comes from an enemy_
@@LCTesla wha-
This show literally the most beautiful piece of art ever created. I watch parts of the Spanish version almost every day. I really wish an English version would be released because this show is an absolute treasure.
I believe so. It is a treasure that should never be thrown away.
Whether it reminds us of our childhood or whatever reason, I would watch Heidi a hundred times over.
In South Africa, Heidi is a very well loved and a fond memory from every Afrikaans person’s youth. The show was dubbed into Afrikaans and the dubbing was incredibly done.
I absolutely LOVED Heidi when I was younger. My dad bought this on disc for me when I was a toddler, I remember watching it so many times over and over again! I watched it in spanish, since its my first language but I remember how happy I got whenever my family sat down with me to watch it all together.
That was a good comfy video.
Can confirm, Alps are great! Very cold, even in summer, especially if there's a giant mountain in front of the horizon, so it takes a couple of extra hours for the sun to peek, but still, the fresh air, the view and just the atmosphere in general makes it worth it.
I grew up watching Heidi. my grandma was a big fan of the show and she showed it to me when i was little, ever since then i’ve been emotionally attached to this series, now every time i see this beautiful series i feel the nostalgia of watching this series with her, this show had a big influence in my childhood, in example my grandma always tells me that when i was little i used to call her “abuelita dime tu” a reference to the show’s more popular song (in spanish and modified to be grandma instead of grandpa) because i loved it so much, also with the animation i think its amazing considering the age of it, also the music complimented the show very well
The overview of HEIDI done here is excellent. My only issue is that the reviewer did so from a modern perspective, rather than the 1974 perspective. Those of us who watched it back then (literally, glued to the TV set daily), watched it with the outlook of what animation actually was in 1974, which was already ways ahead of what it had been just a few years before. Heidi marked a departure in Japanese anime style, and also set off the creation of Nippon Animation (although Heidi was created under the company Suiyo, which still functions for all Heidi licensing). Millions of us grew up with Heidi series books, comic books, record albums, bed sheets, towels, dolls, pencil cases, satchels...... Another issue was that of the music. I agree with the reviewer here that Watanabe was and still is the best version. That those in Europe who watched it with an altered soundtrack like that better is due to experiential views, and is only natural. However, as far as dramatic effect and depth, Watanabe's score is unmatched. Thankfully for us in Spanish speaking territories, the music was kept to the original. I have heard both and, while as a stand alone the EU soundtrack is not bad, I cannot stand watching Heidi with it.
The tone of the anime is more light-hearted than the original. In the Series it is more about Heidi interacting with animals where as the original focuses on the hard life of Heidi (evil aunt, secretive grand dad, home sick because of frankfurt). Otherwise the story is almost identical.
Interesting. Doesn't surprise me too much, seems the older the children's story the darker and crueler it is.
@@korisnthere I would not call the original crueler, I love how much happyness and joy Heidi has in the Alps with her grandfather, there are more religious aspects in the novel, but there are less sad moments in Frankfurt.
Wasn’t Heidi 8 and Clara 12??? In the beginning of the story she’s 5, but when she meets Clara she was 8 if I’m not mistaken. At least in the Dutch version they said that she was 8, but that can be something that they only said in the Dutch dub.
She left to Frankfurt after living three years on the mountains.
Yes, at least in the German dub, Clara is 12 and Heidi is 8
Yup she was 8 when she left to frankfurt.
I think this anime and Anne of Green Gable is memorable on the old times and possibly the new times
also try watch the story of Perrine and princess sarah. the story is very heartwarming. i also like anne but i more like her younger self story anne before the green gables. (there is no English dub just japanese dub with English subtitles)
In Austria, everyone knows Heidi🇦🇹
It seems a lot of the World Masterpiece Theater shows are pretty well known in Europe!
But then there are a few exceptions. l absolutely love the original Captain Harlock series, and, while it's very popular in France, it wasn't even released in my country (Germany).
....well I assume everyone in Germanic region would know who Heidi is cause they wrote it lol.
Just like everyone in Canada knows Anne of Green Gables and everyone in Bangladesh knows Meena.
*SPOILER*
Just finished watching Heidi and while i really liked it for the most part, I couldn't help but think there was a couple plot threads that were never resolved which i found unsatisfying. Like, what happened to Aunt Dete? She kinda just disappeared after leaving Heidi at the sesemann house never to be seen again. And also Uncle Alm, we never got to learn his back story and why he was such a grumpy loner in the first place. it seems like he had a secretive past he was hiding which i thought would be resolved after him opening up to the town but it never happened. In general after Heidi returned the Alps it seems like all the focus went on to Clara with the main cast kinda being pushed into support characters roles. But other than that still an overall good experience and i found the animation held up very well especially for an anime made in the 70s. I think i might check out the book and see how it differs from the anime.
I guess you could find some answers in the novel.
@@ckymadam it's been a few years since I read the novel but from what I can remember that is pretty much what happens to her. Just *puff* it's a really short children's book.
@@brunoss.3273 you can see the new version on RUclips and understand more about the backstory of the grandfather and season 2 is on Netflix
I found it really funny that I also just finished watching the show and I had the same "issues". Dete kind of just dissapeared, and we never got to know Grandfather's backstory, which is a shame, because he is really a great caracter, and knowing more about him and it's relationship with Heidi's father could have been very interesting.
My conclusion is pretty much the same. The show was still really good, and the OST is probably one of the best I've experienced.
My mom is from Honduras and she would always show this to me! Same thing with "candy candy"
Great video man! I love heidi its such a pure hearted yet adventurous anime, its visually gorgeous and it goes to show you dont need a complex , plot twisty story to really capture and bring an audience into the story and world of the characters, sometimes simplicity and wonder is all you need
It really is delightful. Thank you!
@@korisnthere you earned a sub bro 👍
I am from India and I love everything about Heidi.. I love the animation too.. Its nostalgic for me as I used watch it on cartoon network in 90s.. I would love to watch it in English.. can anyone post english series🥰
The channel Radical Moose has uploaded the entire series with english subtitles
great video kor, loved every minute of it.
heidi used to be on television all the time when i was a child here in germany. most didnt know that it was an anime, of course.
In Japan, there’s still an ad collaborating with Heidi.
I’m moving to Switzerland for next semester of uni :) I’m kind of in the mood for this.
I’ve read original Heidi when I was a child and I’m beginning to be able to appreciate older anime. So this one may be good.
Envy West I hope you enjoy it if you give it shot!
Envy West That is weird, Recently I was in Switzerland near Crans-Montanna, And I just walked into a tourist shop, and I saw was a suprises to me. It was book of heidi, but the illustrations looked so much like a the show, with a another shop I when into looked exactly like the anime except in a weird reverse coloring.
You have described it very well and though there are many adaptations of this series the one you picked is the best. It surely captures the details and I have lost the count of how many times i have watched.Started to watch it again yesterday. It is my all time favourite.its not just for children its for all ages.
2:53 the flush from her cheeks do disappear for an episode or two to demonstrate how depressed and sickly she was getting due to her prolonged stay in Frankfurt, along with the emotional repression she was forced to do. I found that pretty interesting.
Yes! I was looking for this comment!
as a german this show is absolutely iconic to me ❤ beautiful, heartwarming story and from what I've heard pretty accurate to the source material. You can really see the ghibli vibe with the great landscapes !
And Clara is actually only 4 years older since Heidi is 8 when she first meets Clara.
Every Ghibli fan should watch this show at least once!
Every European knows about this anime
I'm trying to learn german so I'm watching the german dub with no subtitles, I dont know how well that will help but I hope I retain something. The first episode seems really charming and I'm really looking forward to how heidi and the old man will interact with one another.
Edit: On episode 10 now :)
that dream was short lived, got lazy and quit learning lol
Hope you're enjoying it and it's not too difficult to follow, lol
The rest of the world was already watching anime while America is none the wiser and no one complained. And now those idiots want to change anime because it doesn't fit their values?
I remember watching reruns of Heidi on my grandpa's Satellite TV when I was very young. Clara was my childhood crush.
I remember watching Heidi in afrikaans on vhs when I was younger. The food always looked so good! When I was a tween, my older brother loved studio Ghibli so through him I watched a lot of Ghibli movies. I always thought the food and backgrounds in Howl's Moving Castle were so similar to Heidi. Well only recently did I discover that Hayao Miyazaki helped create Heidi. So I grew up watching anime from a very young age without realizing 🥴.
This is one of my favorite shows from my childhood. Its a great series because of the morality it presents as it treats people as people rather than the cartoon logic American cartoons had back then.
If you haven’t grown up with Heidi then ya missed out
My grandmothers MOTHER watched this back in the 90s it was running in ORF they didnt knew they watched an anime
As a person from a country that has a part of the alps, this show was pretty popular here in Slovenia as well
I grew up watching Heidi girl of the Alps in Mexican Spanish in Latin America particularly in Mexico is dearly beloved and a special piece of nostalgia.
This is how I'd got into anime. It was the first one(s) I watch as a gift from a family friend. Since then going to Japantown and looking at the covers and merchandise of anime and toys or to at that time where you can scan manga/comic books at Barnes and Noble comic/manga sections. It is memorable that this Heidi anime series brought joy into the hardest time of my life as a child readjusting in a new place where nearly exactly the same neighboring city I currently reside in now.
Heidi for the win
I grew up in India, me and my brother loved this show so much!
I watched it on Cartoon Network India too. I I recorded the whole series, cause I cant find it anywhere.
I grew up watching this in Venezuela.
I grew up with these series and I still love it!
I live in america but i wanna live a life like her's up in the mountains
I watched this when I was about 13-15 and loved this show so much and then watched it again 10 years after and brought me to tears with all the nostalgia. this little show will always have a place in my heart. I will buy the dvd and make my friends and families watch it
4:10 I watched Heidi in french and prefer it in it, I love the cartoon but it makes me cry like a fountain and I don’t want to upset my mom so i don’t watch it anymore but I will soon ❤
As a rly greek person, i used to watch this show translated with my dad when i was rly young
Heidi was a HUGE hit in South Africa, indeed
We had an entire dub in Afrikaans, as well as a different soundtrack than the original
I just watched the live action 2003 film adaptation of Heidi. That and the fact that I also happen to be a big anime fan led me here.
Well I'm glad you stumbled across it, hope you enjoyed
Btw...thanks for making me tear up watching your video. Brought back so many memories.
This was THE wholesome anime series of my childhood, except I never knew it was anime until my early 20's when I discovered I grew up watching the (very good, professional) Afrikaans dub of the series and just thought it was a locally-produced cartoon. The localisation chose VA's that were very suited to the characters. The intro song is the same as the one in the German localised version.
ruclips.net/video/Pu7MjOd0o0Y/видео.html
It is one of the most traditional series for children to broadcast in Spain. It is one of the most well-known ones from Japan, along with Doraemon, and the proof is in it being continuously streamed for decades. I watched it with my aunt, and probably my niece will watch it too. The dubbing is also superb. Miss Rottenmeier is both scary and funny. And even louder than in Japanese, I remember a particular scene that you should see when she sees Heidi standing on a window and she shouts like she really is seeing a child about to fall off, from minute 12:39 GLH5lvfyXE0 xD Or this one for your enjoyment, minute 15:31 V93_Mvqxe3o
Heidi was voiced by a grown woman yet she sounds like a child. Plus the music is wonderful, I was lucky enough with the first versions of the broadcast to get all the Japanese songs, opening, ending and insert songs. Yuugata no Uta is so dreamy and beautiful. I just love it.
This is a good companion show for those who like Future Boy Conan. Heidi seems like a good show for girls as it's more Drama based and Future Boy Conan is a good show for boys as it has more Action. Glad RUclips has this as I probably would have not watched it otherwise.
You should review FBC next.
I definitely plan to get to Future Boy Conan sometime. I'm also planning to get to as many of the World Masterpiece Theater shows as I think are worth talking about, I'm currently watching Pollyanna.
I've been watching Spilling the Milk for a couple months now. Today, I fell down a rabbit hole of old now-obscure anime, one of which is "Alps no Shoujo Heidi". I plugged that into the search and Kor's video was the first thing that popped up. True coincidence. It's crazy hearing Kor not making jokes while reacting to something vulgar hehe. He's got a really smooth and relaxing voice.
this was even dubbed in icelandic which is still crazy to me. my mom used to watch it in her childhood and she passed the love down to me and we still love it so much to this day. I was even named after klara :)))
WAIT "Clara"? I know in France we changed the opening song and all but changing a name is something else, for those wandering in France "Clara" is named "Claire"
I had watched this one in Thai on Analogue Antennae 21 years ago.. It's had the Japanese intro with Japanese singing but the rest is dub in Thai. Such nostalgia!
i grew up watching this show and i would’ve never guessed it was an anime lol
Watching this from South Africa 🇿🇦
I just bought Heidi Coca Cola complete set today. ☺️ Thank you for this video sir. Merry Christmas. 🎄🇵🇭
ABSCBN aired this back in the day
I grew up with this Show and it's wonderful-
My little brother don't even want to hear the name of the series🥺😔
TIL that most people think that 40+ episode anime are long
Hey everyone! Here are some Heidi quotes with original artwork!
fabbyquotes.com/heidi-by-johanna-spyri-quotes/
This was my childhood! - South African
I watch this Anime Adaptation once A Year just to stay Humble 🙂
In India the movie version of this anime was shown as well
Yuru Camp backgrounds aren't "generic", they're just more "realistic" and common compared with the fabled alps.
I disagree. Looks like the same bland photoshop manipulation as most modern shows.
Edit: also, Yuru Camp very much embraces a fantastical, heightened, perception of nature and our relationship with it - it blows the characters away (and thus should blow us away too), which is why I gave the example of Heidi as a show that conveys that well through its visuals
Of course you disagree.
I have to think that "wouldn't be adequate" to have a more liberal interpretation of the scenery. It's the real world, and a world that is close to the viewer (the japanese). The viewer can just go and see (the majority of the places were established camping sites), which makes me wonder if the viewer couldn't get disappointed if he went to the real places and see that it was nothing like the anime portrayed, you know what I mean?
I wouldn't say so, as nature in reality itself vs. a realistic depiction is a completely different experience, at least in my opinion. I value more highly depictions that try to convey the emotional experience of an object or idea rather than the literal one.
Since you enjoyed the soundtrack to Heidi, you should really listen to the amazing music Takeo Watanabe wrote for Candy Candy and Rémi sans famille/Nobody's boy.
Where can I watch it for free? :)
I grew up watching heidi
Your voice is amazing! Perfect for video essays!!
Thank you!
The Story of Heidi actually is BASED on a GERMAN Children Story written by Hermman Adam Vom Kamp in 1830 and Heidi was written LATER in 1879 in just a few weeks. Germany has also Alps, but not only the locations are the same, but the words, even sentences are quite the same, the original tittle being, Adelaide, the girl from the Alps, then Adelaide being named as ADELHEID in the book itself. In German there’s more info, Wikipedia can’t not yet plainly state that Johanna Spyri actually STOLE the story of Heidi, in plain words PLAGIARISED vom ADELHEID, Heidi was not only “BASED” on Kamp’s work, but copied it in many aspects. Based and copied are totally different things. But, it has already revolt the media in 2010 when it was presented on the Swiss Tv program. So, I guess they don’t want to start a fight over a children’s story. There’s no need to fight, I think it’s easy, we all are to inform others that Hedi/ADELHEID story was actually written by German writer Adam vom Kamp and then 50 years later, copied/re-written in a few weeks and published by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri.
"Germany has also Alps"
*Bavaria* : Excuse me?
Does anyone know where to watch pls link it
1:39 whats that show
astro boy
*Why you should watch "Heidi: Girl of the Alps"*
Oh, but I'd LOVE to! I just can't seem to find the 1974 anime series anywhere in English...I did enjoy its 2015 CG-remake a lot though. :)
Just saying, as someone who watched both, the 2015 CGI Version is absolutely horrible compared to the original.
It feels really soulless for some reason.
Yeah same and I want the anime version in germany back
@@sailorsagittarius8526 same
Each Anime has their own laws of physics and Heidi is pretty near to ours exept for some other animes I know 😅
What’s the anime in the right top corner with the boy in the red and black poncho?
You mean Marco?
@@AoiHeartStranger thanks
Marco, 3000 leagues in search of mother
Its a Fucking Swiss Anime 😂👌💗 Im from Switzerland 😂💗
I grew up with this and candy candy
0:48 There's an english dub all all 52 episode but it's lost forever 😔 . I was fortunate enough to watch it at a kid.
Only 2 episodes were found 5 days ago (with lagging audio), remaining 50 is still lost sadly.
I refuse to rewatch the series until the english dub is found again.
Hey man there is an english dub in youtube but it's 1and half hour long video all the episodes are merged into a single video
ruclips.net/video/gkB8HGRlapM/видео.html this is the video
A shame it never saw release in America, but we did get many versions of Heidi in tv shows and movies over the decades. Even a Disney version in the 90's.